LISTEN: First track from the new Shearwater LP Animal Joy…
Shearwater return on February 14th with their 8th LP Animal Joy and their first on the seminal Sub Pop label. From the sound of the track Breaking the Yearlings (below) this will be their rawest, most direct effort to date. Animal Joy was produced and recorded by Danny Reisch in Austin, Texas and mixed by Peter … Read more
NEWS: Real Estate announce Australian and New Zealand shows…
Real Estate came through with the jangly and sparkly, indie guitar pop goods on their second album Days that they released a few months back. They are already on the line-up for Golden Plains 2012 and now they’ve announced additional AU dates and a couple of shows in NZ as well… Friday 9th March – … Read more
ALBUM REVIEW: Twerps | Twerps
written by Chris Familton This has been a bumper year for wistful guitar music brimming with melodies and laidback vibes – perfectly suited to soundtracking either a dreary autumn day or the warming expectation of summer. Real Estate, Girls and Oh Mercy are at the more immediate end of the spectrum but not far behind … Read more
LISTEN: Dick Diver | Through the D
Melbourne’s Dick Diver have a great sound reminiscent of Go-Betweens and New Zealand bands like The Bats and The Chills – laidback, strumming, washes of sound. Great stuff… Through the D comes from their debut album New Start Again which comes out October 14th via Chapter Music. You can also grab their 2009 Arks Up EP … Read more
LISTEN: Tom Waits | Back In The Crowd [NEW]
Tom Waits has issued a second single from the forthcoming album Bad As Me. Back In The Crowd is a gorgeous ballad showing the tender side of the clatter and the bombast. Really looking forward to the new LP coming out October 24th via Anti.
LISTEN: To the first full track from Lou Reed /Metallica’s Lulu
The LP gets released at the end of October but today we have the first full length track The View. It reminds me a bit of Bowie’s dalliance with Tin Machine in parts and heard as a whole track it sounds way better than the impression the 30 second teaser gave us last week.
FREE DOWNLOAD: Iowa’s new single Complete Control
Following last year’s Lose Yourself single Melbourne’s Iowa have just released their new single Complete Control which you can download for free from their Bandcamp page. This time round they harness the surging, sonic sway of bands like Swervedriver with impressive results… DS RECOMMENDS!
NEWS: Popstrangers sign to Flying Nun and release new single…
Popstrangers are the latest addition to the revamped and revitalised Flying Nun Records label. The Auckland trio have previously issued a couple of EPs and a split 7″ . Check them out on BANDCAMP and now they have released their debut single for FN – What Else Could They Do.
NEWS: Listen to a track from the new Wavves mini-album Life Sux…
On the back of last year’s brilliant King of the Beach Wavves have been churning out some new tracks and a bunch of them will form the new mini-album Life Sux – due out at the end of September via Inertia. Check out one of the new tracks below – the uber catchy Jesus and … Read more
LISTEN: To Seekir from the new Zola Jesus album…
Zola Jesus has followed up last year’s Stridulum II pretty quickly with the upcoming Conatus, out October 4th via Sacred Bones. Stridulum II was a dark and lush trip through pop electronica and goth with Nika Roza Danilova’s voice a commanding presence throughout. Conatus sounds like it will continue that vibe but perhaps with a … Read more
LISTEN: to the new Thom Yorke/Modeselektor collaborations…
The new Modeselektor album Monkeytown is due out October 4th and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke appears on two tracks… check them out below with annoying stream beeps included.
NEWS: Moon Duo tour Australia…
Those of you who have salivated over Wooden Shjips for the last few years are probably already aware of Moon Duo, the side project of WS guitarist Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada. Formed in 2009, Moon Duo’s first two critically acclaimed EPs, Killing Time (2009) and Escape (2010), fused the futuristic pylon hum and transistor … Read more
